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...moved the London tabloid, the Sun, to run a photo of a buxom model and her husband baring almost all in watery togetherness. It also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...unbearable, a third paragraph offers relief: "But don't panic. It may take ten to 14 years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with a loud promotional buzz, but there is not much editorial sting in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wishing on a Star | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Meistersinger Minister | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

Newsday is easily the nation's best suburban newspaper. Only 33 years old, it has grown up and prospered with Long Island. Its tabloid format is an innovative blend of newspaper and newsmagazine. The contents conform: heavy on interpretive reporting and features, light on spot or breaking news stories that commuting readers have already seen in the Manhattan press or heard on their car radios. Newsday combines solid local coverage with ambitious national and international undertakings. It invested a year of reporting, for instance, to produce a sophisticated 13-part feature called "The Real Suburbia." (Among its findings: suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Ten Best American Dailies | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...ownership" in their city, despite Murdoch's pledge to "keep those newspapers steadfastly American." Whatever the outcome, Murdoch's San Antonio properties will give him a toehold in the U.S. that he plans to enlarge soon in a major way with the founding of a national weekly tabloid paper. Slated for introduction in the Northeast in February, Murdoch's National Star will, he promises, "fall somewhere between TIME and the National Enquirer in content and approach." He obviously wants a good deal of latitude in which to navigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Takes | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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